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India central bank cuts interest rates
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MUMBAI (AFP) - - India's central bank slashed its two key short-term interest rates Friday in a bid to kickstart the domestic economy hit by the global financial turmoil.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) reduced its repo rate -- the short term rate at which it lends to commercial banks -- by 100 basis points to 5.5 percent.
It also slashed the reverse repo rate --- the rate at which it borrows overnight -- to four percent, bank authorities announced.
The bank also unveiled a cut in the cash reserve ratio, the proportion of deposits domestic banks have to keep with the RBI, by 50 basis points to five percent from January 17.
"These measures will make the new year happier," national planning official Montek Singh Aluwalia said in New Delhi, unveiling a parallel package to stimulate the Indian economy.
Experts said the easing of the rates was likely to inject around 4.1 billion dollars into the domestic banking system.
The rate cuts were the fourth by the bank in less than three months.
India's economy has been hit by the global recession and confidence has been undermined further by the November 26 attacks in the financial capital Mumbai that left 172 people dead, including nine gunmen.
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